If you go through the rest of this thread several people said it's impossible and "unplayable".
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If you go through the rest of this thread several people said it's impossible and "unplayable".
1. Are you running it with multi-threaded OpenGL?
2. Look for every other post I've made about it.
3. Here's some help.
Short answer – yes and rather well.
Have a look at this - http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43717 – where one of the older 2.0 MBs was put through its paces and performed well despite not meeting the min hardware requirements for Studio. All of the feedback on various forums about MBs running FCP that I’ve seen has been positive.
You didn’t ask about Shake, but thought I’d include a link about it anyway…
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=52346
Presumably you’re talking about that the MBP can utilise external FW800 drives, while the MB can’t.
I’m pretty sure that Apple doesn’t list the min specs/requirements for individual Studio apps, which makes it a little bit difficult for consumers to judge these things for themselves. [EDIT: I double-checked this and this is now listed on the Apple site - sorry!]
As to the issue of the MBs video/Studio – you’re quite right, they don’t support each other. Apple warns “Note: The integrated graphics processor in the MacBook does not permit float processing in Motion and will result in degraded performance and other issues in Motion and other Final Cut Studio applications.” From what I’ve seen in various forums, virtually everyone people who asked in a Apple Store whether FCP or Studio could run on a MB, the answer tended to be a definite no, followed by a sales pitch.
I was thinking the Macbook might not do well with 7200RPM drives? It can't be configured with them, and might have issues dissipating heat from them (or at least some of them)?
Ahh, fair enough the reason I thought you were referring to external drives, is that its recommended to use a second drive as your primary scratch disk when using FC.
Theres a fair few forum reports of MB users who have installed 7200 rpm drives quite happily. Perhaps one reason Apple doesnt offer them as BTO options on MBs currently is to add a little more differential between the two laptop ranges.
BTW Barefeats did some speedtests on hard drives it tested in MBPs (dont have the link to hand sorry!) which you would probably found interested in. Basically it concluded that the 5200rpm were the best for energy efficiency and that the speed advantage of 7200rpm was reduced as data was added to the drives (although I think the 7200 drive it tested was much smaller than the others.)
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=macbook+world+of+warcraft&search=Search
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bnSA-1ophR8 - Specifically...
Looks great to me... Better than my windows PC...
I am one who has long said that WoW runs like crap on a MacBook. But this video has really thrown me off. How come it doesn't run that well on mine? I set everything as low as it goes. I have basically the same system as the guy in that video. On my MacBook if I go to a major city, I'll get periods where the game just locks up and gives me a slide show for about 2-3 min. Then goes back to a choppy 15fps.
Something's not adding up here...
Edit: Does running WoW under Windows XP offer any performance gains over OS X?
Unfortunately I've heard that it does. Windows is supposed to be more efficient.
That said, I've seen WoW running on Intel hardware, and it's not pretty. My 5 year old Geforce 4 runs WoW in the 30-40+ FPS range with all settings to max (except AA, which is worthless anyway) at 1280x1024, and Intel's video struggles in a tiny window with settings on their minimums (not to mention, from my experience Intel's drivers cheat, and aren't rendering the same visual quality as Nvidia, even with the same settings).
Tuesday has come and gone.
So I'm guessing it was not Tuesday.
Would be nice to see it in 20in
So I'm guessing it was not Tuesday.
Would be nice to see it in 20in
Tuesday.
Uh... this is over a year old and absolutely nothing you said here holds any relevance anymore...